Culture Bill 1: Naming the Subdivisions

[Lüc da Schir]

So this is the first in a series of culture bill I'd like to work on during the term, encompassing a bit of everything from several discussions around the forum.

We have two cantons with three parishes each as shown on this map: (link to google my maps)

I have nicknamed the parishes mostly based off local features, but they're actually unnamed (obviously, as the point of this thread is to see if we can come up with some names).

Canton	Parish	Size	Population	Description
Garibaldi	01 ("Kenwood")	0.157 km2	851	Low density residential; borders Atatürk and the UWM campus to the north
Garibaldi	02 ("Locust")	0.156 km2	1182	Low density residential with some shops in the middle. Northernmost bridge on the Milwaukee in Talossa.
Garibaldi	03 ("Riverside")	0.359 km2	1642	Contains the Capitol and most of our parkland ("King John Woolley on the Riverside Park") and sport facilities
Mazzini	01 ("Webster")	0.123 km2	995	Mix of small houses and larger buildings in a 3x3 grid
Mazzini	02 ("Prospect")	0.238 km2	1473	Contains several large buildings, shops, restaurants and borders Hooligan's Super Bar and Landmark Building in FL, Prospect Avenue and St Mary's Hospital
Mazzini	03 ("Lorentzio")	0.326 km2	1210	Contains residential areas, more parkland, some shops and a couple of UWM buildings

[Lüc da Schir]

So I guess the questions are three:

1) How do we name the parishes?

2) Do we keep the term "parish" at all, or swap to a Benitian variant?

3) Do we change the cantons as well, perhaps reverting to the old Riverside/Lorentzio variants?

[Iason Bitxichë Taiwos]

1. Actually, as of right now, I kind of like your nicknames for them.
2. Parish in Talossan is "pleiv". Well, L'Oversteier says pleiv is a "congregation (church), parish", so more like a Catholic parish than, say, a Louisiana parish, which is basically just a county (cuntat in Talossan.)
These are very small areas. Why not call them districts? (Four words for district come up on L'Oversteier, only two of which, I think, fit our purposes..."distriteu" and "zistritz".) Or, we could call them "quarters", as in the quarter of a town - "cartieir" in Talossan. (Even tho there are six of them. That's quirky, right?)
I suppose we don't even have to give "parish" a Talossan name, we could just make up something. I dunno.
3. I don't know about this one. Sort of used to Mazzini and Garibaldi.

[Lüc da Schir]

Oh! I have a good one. Venice has sestieri (sing. sestiere), meaning "one-sixths divisions" in an analogous way to the term "quarters".

Perhaps we could Talossanize "sestiere" ("sextieir(s)"?); "sixth" is "sexlaiset" or "sextéu". Sir C. M. Siervicül, come to our help!

[E.S. Bornatfiglheu]

Aug 25, 2018 9:08:13 GMT -6 Lüc da Schir said:

Oh! I have a good one. Venice has sestieri (sing. sestiere), meaning "one-sixths divisions" in an analogous way to the term "quarters".

Perhaps we could Talossanize "sestiere" ("sextieir(s)"?); "sixth" is "sexlaiset" or "sextéu". Sir C. M. Siervicül , come to our help!

Oooh.... I really like this idea, Talossanizing an Italian concept.

If we wanted to take that a step further, we could do it with Garibaldi and Mazzini.  Evidently, Garibaldi is derived from a Germanic term combining "lance" and "courage."  So... " lança" and "curatx" or "tartxast."  So Garibaldi could become "Lançacuratix"  Mazzini, from "tool or mace maker"  could be something like "Veldisprotfraicheir" or "Utulfaçarh."

I'm most likely not getting it right on.  But it would offer some options if we wanted to go in that direction.

[Lüc da Schir]

Sounds great! I think Mazzini would be Utulfaçeir rather than -façarh btw. The other one is a bit of a mouthful. And for Garibaldi Lançacuratx is definitely a cool name.

I think "sextieir" is the way to go for parishes. I've just realised "sexlaiset" means "6th" rather than one-sixth, and the other one doesn't convince me.